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should be prepared to answer some tough questions about general petraeus and allen and the fbi investigation as well as libya, not to mention the fiscal cliff and we're learning more about the woman who knew both general, tampa socialite jill kelley. a senior defense official says the e-mails between the two were more than just calling one another sweetheart, they were flirtatious and unprofessional. both of them wrote letters vouching for her sister in a child custody case and she made this phone call claiming she had some sort of diplomatic status which she does not. >> i am an honorary consul-general so i have unveilability so i should -- they should not be going across my property. but that's against the law to cross my mrort. um, it's involable.
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>> "the washington post" says there is a new focus on sensitive information in her possession. multiple u.s. officials have insisted to nbc news there was no security breach. let me bring in major garrett, white house reporter and tim carney for "the washington examiner." good morning to both of you. tim, let me start with you. are you surprised about the decision apparently by general petraeus to testify before the senate intelligence committee? >> i know that on capitol hill and probably in the media there was a shock that he was going to back out of it. that just his quitting his job shouldn't have been enough to get him out of testifying on what was the biggest blowup at the cia in recent years when he was charge of it so i'm not surprised he turned around but that he could back out, he thought. >> not what president obama wanted to talk about at his first post-election briefing but
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what is the first question about? >> about general petraeus, general allen and this entire context of what is happening in the senior military leadership. what was going on with jill kelley and what, if anything, it has to do with the underlying story of libya and the cia's involvement there. i mean there's more and more information, some of it opaque, some of it becoming a little more defined that it was the cia, not the state department, that had the lead role in either securing or being a part of whatever that consulate activity was in benghazi. now, maybe there are things the president cannot disclose at an open press conference but this testimony that general petraeus will give behind closed doors may be able to shed some light on libya, cia and what may have been some of the motives of those terrorists who attacked on 9/11. we'll find out. >> yeah, the big question about the fbi investigation, it seems to me, is the possibility did
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paula broadwell have classified documents she wasn't supposed to have. the implication, she had -- although at one time she did have some sort of security clearance, i don't know how high it was but how do you address that? >> this is why people get involved about the cia having extramarital affair, not only does it make them potentially blackmailable but allows sensitive information to get out. if there is no evidence she has this, we have to step back and ask why is the fbi digging around all these people's e-mails? did it just have to do with phone calls from jill kelley who happened to be friends with an fbi agent. there are all sorts of ways this could turn out. >> you heard that phone call from jill kelley. i mean, check out her license plate which is -- looks like a diplomatic plate. and apparently she is technically an honorary consul but it's for south korea so she does not have diplomatic status. i don't understand any of this. even if there was no affair and both sides have said there was
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not, if there were 20 to 30,000 pages of e-mails between married people, one of whom has a very high life level job and presumably is very busy prosecuting a war, aren't there some serious questions to be asked? >> well, yes, and we really don't know nearly enough about what jill kelley thought she was doing, what she was authorized to do. if she had a super enlarged view of herself that was completely ink compatible with the underlying facts. we know that she was obviously in and around a lot of people, had e-mail conversations with people that ordinary americans do not have e-mail conversations with and that she's at the center of this or appears for the moment to be at the center of this. i mean there's a tremendous amount about her we don't know, about her activities that we don't know or the relevance we don't know and there have been some suggestions on capitol hill this may be the most sensational headline-driving aspect of this case, but the more important issues may be the underlying
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ones about libya and overall national security questions and that may be a joint committee with subpoena power and a strict singular focus on all of this might be the best mechanism. congress will have to sort that out. >> of course, with the president and what he had hoped to talk about was the fiscal cliff. let me play a complip lip of pa. >> i'm not for raising tax rates. >> so you won't support a plan? >> i do not support raising tax rates. >> period? >> yeah, i've been saying that my entire career. >> tim, what's your sense? >> i think the republican party has a split and one of the interesting ways you can follow it has to do with what -- john boehner versus paul ryan. boehner is pushing for conference shame, republican congresswoman rogers while ryan is pushing tom price who used to run the conservative caucus in
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the house. if most of the caucus is getting behind them then it's a sign they'll dig in their heels. if they're going with boehner, it's a sign they'll deal. >> i want to bring in a democrat on both the armed services committee and select committee on intelligence and the fiscal cliff if i might. do you think the republicans will come to play? >> i believe that they will. it's my hope that everyone has gotten the message loud and clear that the american people expect us to compromise, democrats and republicans coming together to solve the fiscal cliff issue but in a balanced way and that is certainly what president obama has campaigned on protecting a strong middle class, allowing the tax cuts to expire above $250,000, but we can't be afraid to compromise but we can do that without compromising our principles. >> is part of this deal-making that the president wants to start his offer with more from
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the revenue side, the deal that fell apart, have $800 billion in revenue over ten years, now he might want to start with 1.6 trillion? >> sure, we're just -- let's put this in perspective. we have just over a trillion dollar budget deficit this year. so this part of raising additional revenue, that $1.6 trillion that the president is talking about as a starting point is only a down payment, if you will, on what we need to do in other areas which means budget cuts along with really putting people back to work because that's going to be the best thing to relieve pressure on our budget challenges right now. so it really has to be a shared sacrifice bill but we have to get serious about deficit reduction and that means that we have to have significant revenues on the table. >> you have two briefings today. one about former cia director david petraeus, the other on the attack on the consulate in
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benghazi. what do you expect to hear and what are the questions you have that are most pressing? >> well, we'll have top people from across the administration coming in very soon to talk to us about benghazi and we want to obviously understand the facts and what we knew and when we knew it. it was a terrible tragedy that we lost a u.s. ambassador among -- along with several others and we need to understand who knew what and when and we have to obviously make sure that something like this could never happen again. hold those people accountable. >> the time line is one thing. what can you tell us about the possibility that paula broadwell might have had access to classified information? >> well, these are things that we want to get into more details about, as well, the whole general petraeus situation is unfortunate. i have incredible respect for general petraeus and he had done an excellent job as cia director. i found him to be very credible
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and forthcoming and was doing a good job at cia. it's a big loss for the agency and country that he has left but given the circumstances, unfortunately, i don't see there was any other alternative. >> how concerned are you that the fbi didn't seem to tell anyone about this investigation in what many in congress have suggested was not a timely manner? >> right, i'm very concerned about that and i spoke about that yesterday. with some of the staff who were getting briefed up on what was going to be coming in terms of the hearings and i asked the question, you know, when do they have an obligation to report and, of course, the answer is in a timely manner and as i understand it, the fbi did not inform either the chairman or the ranking member of either the house or senate intelligence committee or the full committees in a timely manner so that's something where it has to be addressed not only in this situation but other areas that involve sensitive intelligence
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issues or investigations. they need to be compliant with the law. >> congressman james langevin, thanks for being on the program. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i think something else that will come up at the press conference today, you mentioned it. libya. senator john mccain went off on it this morning. let me play that. >> you think the president misled us? >> i know he did. he didn't tell the truth to the american people at one time or another. >> how widely held a view do you think that is? i was a little bit surprised, frankly, to hear him put it so clearly, major. >> well, republicans do believe that there was an information gap and a flow gap that is irreconcilable with the known facts and what the administration was representing in the five or six days after the 9/11 attack on that sons lat facility in benghazi. now, one thing republicans will probably have to caution against is overdramatizing their sense of outrage and building a fact pattern that represents a
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genuine inquiry and not partisan accusations. the one thing that the white house has here is that it has the fact pattern and accountability and generally investigations succeed when you build a fact pattern gradually bit by bit and don't accuse things before you have an underlying fact basis for that. my guess is republicans as they sit and talk about this are going to have to come to some grips with what they fear might have happened or what they might want to allege and what actually happened. >> so many pieces of this puzzle are interrelated. john mccain also said he will do everything he can to stop susan rice from being confirmed as secretary of state. does this present a problem? do you think they will go forward with it? she was widely considered to be the top possibility? >> it's one of the bigger early fights that obama can face but it could take a step back, not just looking at what happened in benghazi but more broadly at all of libya. what we did going in there. we know rice was one of the major driving forces who said we need to go and drive out
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gadhafi. if some of the nation building starts to turn ugly over the next year which tends to happen how does that reflect on susan rice's push to get us in there. that's one issue that could come up. >> is this a fight the white house wants to have, major? is john kerry looking like the better candidate now? >> well, that's for the administration to decide and they're getting early signals from republicans that if the president wants to go down this road and nominate ambassador rice, that it's going to be a fight and it's going to be game on and it will take on a very partisan and divided tone, very rapidly, whether the administration wants to do that and make a symbol not only of susan rice or go with someone far more easily confirmable like senator kerry might be a choice the administration wants to make but all indications is they're ready for a fight and up to the president to decide whether he wants to have it. >> thanks to see both of you.
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you can watch the president's news conference live at 1:30 eastern time here. in the meantime, congresswoman nancy pelosi is holding a news conference saying she wants to remain democratic leader in the house and aides said she made the announcement just a short time ago while talking with her caucus. let's listen. [ applause ] >> millions of women's votes that it took to re-elect president barack obama. [ applause ] >> yes. >> millions of women's votes who helped us elect a record number of women to the congress of the united states. as you look forward, understand that you are looking into the future. the future of empower. of women in america. you saw some of these faces yesterday among the new members-elect.
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i said then that they were part of the most diverse caucus in the history of the world, the first time their parliamentary body would have a party who had a majority of women and minorities. as its strength and we're very, very proud of that. i said yesterday we did not have the majority but we have the gav gavel. excuse me. we don't have the gavel. we don't have -- we have our own gavel. we have something more important. we have unity. we do not have the gavel, we do not have the majority but we have unity. i think our caucus this morning demonstrated that very clearly. so i come here with my sisters
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when i came to congress 25 years ago, there were about 23 members of congress who were women out of 435. just think of that. 11, 12 democrats, 11 republicans, something like that. today we have over 60 house democratic women. very good. [ applause ] not enough. we want more. but all of us who were there that dozen early on, that dozen of us there, we all took responsibility to try to pull more women into congress in our state delegations and across the country. i'm very proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators, senator feinstein and senator boxer so women are
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empowered in california. i'm also want to acknowledge that although our numbers are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate, senator-elect tammy baldwin and we're very proud of that. [ applause ] senator-elect macy hirano, only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. that's pretty exciting and unfortunately we won't have kathy hochul and betty sutton in this next congress, but the future is soon and coming upon us and we know they will be making a great public contribution. so here we are in the past week since the election, we're still finishing up some of our campaigns, we're very proud of the success as i said yesterday and as you see here today. why is it important for us to
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make this statement of the strength of women in the congress of the united states? of the house democratic women? because this is where the hopes and dreams of america's families are riding. they may not know that. they may not know one party from the next and the rest but we know that without rosa we would not have lilly ledbetter and the paycheck fairness act. without gwen moore, we would not have the violence against women act being put forth the way it is. gwen there, thank you. jackie spear working so hard with other members of our caucus, loretta sanchez to protect women in the military. [ applause ] we are so very, very proud of the chair of the democratic national committee debbie
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wasserman schultz who is here. [ applause ] i could go around here and talk about the leadership, certainly susan davis, women in the military, has been her issue for a long time. but in any event, the point is that if america is going to reach its full fulfillment as a nation, we must have the further empower. of women. women in the military, if we want to be at our strongest we must give women every opportunity in the women to hold every job so that they can one day attain the top job. if we want women in business, how could it be that their fortune 500 and fewer ceos -- if we want our economy to flourish and grow, we must lift up women's leadership in our economy. very important.
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women in the academic world, women in health care, any subject you can name is more wholesome, more successful, more efficient with the involvement of women. and so women came to the polls, when women came to the polls last week, they registered their support for those who understood the challenges that women face. it's really, really a remarkable thing under the leadership of the women standing here, the voices of america's mothers, daughters and grandmothers will be heard. women are the breadwinners for our families in many cases, the small business owners in our communities, isn't that right? >> yes. >> and the workers that will spare our prosperity. holding jobs but are also creating jobs as entrepreneurs and owners. >> nancy pelosi just minutes
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after announcing she wants to stay on as the democratic leader and maybe not good news for steny hoyer. tim, what's the dynamic now because there had been a lot of speculation over the last week whether she'd stay or not. >> you also have to remember being the minority in the house of representatives is a position of utter powerlessness. you think running a party in the house of representatives that's great, it's a great accomplishment she did get to be speaker but the house minority does is vote no and issue reports unlike a senate mortgage which can filibuster, block things, put holds on it so for now i think it's largely a symbolic role but she has not succeeded in -- she lost some house majority and not succeeded in taking it back. traditionally that's grounds for losing your job as leader but on the other hand she has firm support of the liberal base. liberals love nancy pelosi and if she got thrown overboard for steny hoyer that would disrupt the space. >> very symbolic in the year for
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or 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? [ cheers and applause ] surprised a lot of people who knew the general but for a lot of us it's all too familiar. powerful men risking their career, reputation and in this case possibly national security for a sexual indiscretion. what's behind this destructive behavior and are we wrong to care? "more" magazine online is tacking that question in a series of articles and the editor in chief leslie seymour is here and constance white, "essence" magazine's editor in chief. good to see you both. good morning. you have sex, lies and trousergate. >> from 2008. >> it's the most evergreen set of articles we've ever had. >> we had all these great writers from the susan cheever to others write for us and saying what are they doing in
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response to spitzer and edwards so here is the most evergreen thing and reintroduce it every six months. what is it with these guys. >> it's irrelevant. >> it's totally relevant. >> schwarzenegger, clinton, do they never learn. >> that's why we care, because they never learn and because it seems to be part and parcel of life these days. misbehaving. >> but i think it's time to grow up, guys. i mean really and especially in the e-mail age and the twitter age, all of this, if you think and especially if you're the head of the cia, if you think that this is going to somehow remain undiscovered, that's the other part. do you really today you've seen all your friends taken down. as i say, al qaeda didn't need a dirty bomb it needed a sex bomb. we got it. >> the other thing people have talked about a lot, constance, is that there's a national security question here. does it make it more egregious in some ways. >> it does. on the one hand you think that if this person can't make good
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judgment in their personal lives and if this person can't keep peck dill joes private, then how would they -- >> the other question, was this giving of classified information? we don't know that yet. the initial indications are there were not but then they searched her house and find some documents that raise some questions. >> but it's distracting, too. i mean think of those jobs these guys have. my job is hard enough without trying to keep this major national scandal at bay. how are you doing this? how is this girl having this 20,000, 30,000-page exchange with general allen? >> that's a question. you're both editors in chief. you both have a lot of responsibilities and not just to your job but to your family, as well >> that's right. >> how long would it take you to send 20,000 e-mails? >> i'm too busy for an affair, right? >> using six assistants, i can't even imagine but what's interesting, chris, we also
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found on essence.com, we did a poll and we found that our audience is telling us that you know what, what he does on his private time shouldn't necessarily cost him his job. national security, what while they don't support this at the same time it shouldn't necessarily cost -- >> you posted something on your facebook page. >> and got 100 responses and unfortunately people will say that, you know, we should be like the french and did have my friends in france say grow up because mitterrand had his child out of wedlock and we live with it and you're so naive. a lot are saying we're living in the victorian age and time to get rid of it. the problem is truly when you get to a national security problem, i mean what was to stop one of our enemies to sending in some cute little cutie pie a la lewinsky, if these guys are that vulnerable, i mean if it's that easy, that's the scary part. it's just -- >> it puts the country at risk.
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>> a little honey pot. >> that is not too far to go with this. >> let me flip the coin as huffington post did. it was raised why relatively few powerful women get caught up. is sex so fundamentally different for each gender that men see it as exerting their influence while somehow succumb to it? have we simply not reached the point where there are enough women in positions of power that will make cheating an equal opportunity perk of office and men do this because they can and women don't because they can't yet? is that what's going on here? >> i'm not so sure. there are a lot more men in powerful places so it's true as lisa says we're not sure until more women move into positions of power in the military, in coopera cooperate. we do know that women and men do have different fundamental differences when it comes to sex.
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we operate differently. the things that are important to us are different and that affects our behavior. >> that doesn't necessarily drive us into those jobs, chris. i mean what's really interesting is when we did this original piece in 2008. when you look at the politicians, when you talk to male politicians, they got into the business because it was going to get the girls. you know, when you talk to movie stars, a lot of them were fat and ugly in high school and that was the way to get the girls. now, the military, you would think would be different, but maybe it's not. i mean men are in these positions sometimes to get the girls and women, when you talk to women politicians they're usually in there to change the world. it's slightly different. >> that's depressing if it's true. >> it's very depressing. >> we can't leave out when you look at general petraeus, you can't leave out also the fundamental difference that we are attracted to them. something about a man in uniform, and now that we're focusing on -- >> richard gere "an officer and a?" >> yes, yes, part of the
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mystery. >> do we really still want men to pick up us in the factory and carry us out. >> no, i want them to pick me up and give me a raise. >> thank you. this conversation is not over, is it? >> no. >> thank you very much. to politics now where democrats are getting a double dose of good news. now, we told you nancy pelosi wants to remain democratic leader in the house. and just last hour, maine senator-elect angus king says he will caucus with the democrats. he won his seat as an independent. >> i'd like to repeat that. by associating myself with one side i am not in automatic opposition to the other. no one party can control the outcome of our collective deliberations. as bill clinton might say, it's just arithmetic. >> john boehner is making his bid for speaker of the house official in eye letter sent to his colleagues he says his priorities are taking on the president and democrats in the senate. he calls house republicans the last line of defense.
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20 self endorsement for hauck had. the paper writes "she would bring vastly more leadership, experience and judgment to the white house compared to its current occupy. for the country's sake and because she clearly is the best candidate we hope the competing factions in national democratic politics will coalesce to make her the nominee." let's bring in former senator blanche lincoln, democrat from arkansas and republican strategist and former huckabee campaign manager chip saltzman. hillary clinton says she's not interested in running again but maybe encouragement from the american people, at least a lot of democrats and maybe her husband do you think she could be convinced to make a run. >> she was a great candidate to begin with. i think that she could -- she's proven leadership in her position as secretary of state and has great, great things to offer and understands the american people are having a little bit of campaign fatigue and now is not the time to talk about it probably.
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people are looking to see, you know, all the promises about bipartisanship, they want to see governing. they want to see us governing and solving our problems and not really kind of talking about the campaigns now. we put that behind us and it's time to get, you know, focused on the problems and solving some of these problems we have. but she's a great candidate. she's provided great leadership for this country and i think she can continue to do so. >> yet as you know those conversations have already begun, in fact, they were being had before this election was over, chip. is hillary clinton potentially the biggest concern for republicans? >> well, i think she brings a lot to the table, certainly she's had a good run as secretary of state. she had -- she was obviously -- she was supposed to be the nomination four years ago. she'll raise a ton of money. i feel good about our bench. i think we've got a very deep bench and a lot of folks running in 2016. >> there is preliminary 2016
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polling out there. hillary clinton is the runaway favorite in florida, iowa and new hampshire. it shows chris christie in new hampshire, mike huckabee in iowa. marco rubio is going to iowa to campaign for governor branstad. are we looking at a drawn out republican primary? >> we had a drawn out system because of super pacs so all of these candidates will not only be able to raise a lot for their campaigns but a super pac will get them started. it's an open seat on both sides, this campaign being long, expensive through a lot of states. no longer about iowa, new hampshire and south carolina only. obviously that's where you get started and where the kickoff is. >> well, vice president biden, let's see, new york governor andrew cuomo, maryland's governor martin o'malley also being talked a lot about in these 2016 conversations. total game changer if hillary clinton sort of sticks to it and
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says i'm not running, right? >> i'm sorry, chris. say that again. >> a total game changer if hillary clinton decides definitely not to run. >> yeah, i think, as i said i think democrats are excited about what president obama has done through this election cycle and excited about the possibilities of solving problems. i don't think they're focused on the campaign in 2016. >> oh, come on, these conversations are not being had? >> all those people you mention, vice president biden was my seat made in the senate, a fabulous leader, wonderful, works wonderfully with the senate. does a tremendous job as vice president. we have a lot of great candidates on the democratic side that are possible, but i don't think they'll want to start talking about it. i think they'll want to start working hard on the problems we see that we can solve and chip says, the people will see what this next four years produces and i think democrats want to make sure that they're working in a bipartisan way to find the solutions and make these next four years very, very productive. >> well, chip, i agree with the
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senator to the point i don't think you'll have anybody coming out and saying tomorrow or even in the next year, you know, i'm definitely mounting a run but from a practical standpoint and given money considerations you're talking about and trying to line up, people who could raise a lot of money for them and run super pacs, when does a 2016 candidate need to really seriously make a move in they're going to mount a presidential run? has that changed? >> no, i mean some of them started yesterday. i think senator lincoln is being very nice, respectful and polite which is what she's known for but i've got several phone calls from staff people, from people thinking about it. there's a lot of people that can stay out longer but for the folks we don't know yet they'll start talking to staff. they're talking about it. more importantly they'll try to get people like us to talk about it so names can be up and mentioned but that race has already started for some people it started before this election was over and it will continue to start and continue on through
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the primary system. >> chip saltsman. senator blanche lincoln, thanks to both of you. >> thanks. >> new york's governor is ordering an investigation into how power companies handled their response to hurricane sandy. he says the utilities were not properly prepared and they'd been too slow to restore power. the long island power authority, which has been slammed for its response to the storm, announced yesterday that its chief operating officer will step down at the end of the year. more than 28,000 people in new york are still without power. the ntsb is investigating a fiery plane crash in jackson, mississippi, that killed three on board. authorities say the pilot asked for permission to land soon after takeoff but never made it. it crashed through some trees and into a house that then caught fire. one person escaped the burning house but with just minor injuries. elmo puppeteer kevin clash says he is relieved after being cleared of allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor. he took a leave of absence from
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we overuse this word iconic, i don't think so in this case. tell me about your friend, stanley and how you were able to get the photos. >> he was an old-time photojournalist and he covered the campaign of john f. kennedy in 1960 and became very, very close. >> look at that camera. it's unbelievable. huge camera he carried around. >> he did and i took care of him the last few years when he had a stroke and he left me his marine corps locker. what do you have in that marine corps locker and he would say, nude photos so i thought they were. i never asked about it again. they delivered the marine corps locker and my husband said, what's in there? i said stanley's nude photos. and he said open this. open it right now. we opened it and instead of nude photos, we found this sent mental cache of letters from the kennedys, diary excerpts, memos
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that stanley had written. there was also a hand stitched guest towel that said jfk. i never figured -- there's a picture of it in the book. i never figured out where that towel came from. i wondered if maybe he pinched it when he was at hyannisport. maybe jackie gave it to him. there was a note that said, stanley, thank you very much. love jackie. >> wow, what a treasure trove. >> it really was so i figured this was the 50th anniversary of the kennedy administration. this was a gift to me. i have to give it back. so -- >> let's look at some of the photographs. one of the first ones is a photo of jfk and jackie kennedy in a convertible and the president was so cautious about showing his wife affection but look at this photo. >> she loved this photo. she told stanley this was the favorite photo of the two of them taken together because it shows such intimacy and such
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affection. you know, when jfk gave his inaugural address he was one of the few presidents that didn't kiss his wife after. >> wow. >> so that she loved that picture. jackie didn't like her kids being photographed in the white house and i'm sure there were many security concerns but stanley snapped this photo of caroline holding her dad's ph o photo. >> when jackie saw this, she went berserk. she said it makes car line look bratty. the press secretary made stanley promise not to use it. he promised not to. but joe kennedy said, get the negatives. if you don't get the negatives, the bastards will run with it and a year later they did and mrs. kennedy was very upset. >> so many of his photographs are really ingrained in our consciousness. have you this picture of jfk walking and handing holds -- >> isn't that --
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>> then the desk photo when he's hiding underneath. >> that's an iconic one. stanley always said, kid, when i shove off that's the picture i'll probably be remembered for. >> i said is it your favorite? >> he said, no, it's not. his favorite shot was what he calls the hand shot and it's a picture of john f. kennedy standing on top of a convertible and the sea of hands reaching up to him and stanley thought that was sort of the start of the political figure with charisma. >> i think maybe my favorite photograph is never before seen photo of john-john sitting in his dad's chair in the oval office. look at that picture but why was it never seen before? it's so charming. >> because the president said that one you can't publish because it looks like i'm not taking the office seriously. >> there's so many more photos. can we kickly show the one of jackie in her wedding dress? i'm taking them out of order so it may be hard.
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again, it's just a treasure trove and best-selling author kitty kelley, what a pleasure to have you in today. >> thank you. >> today's tweet of the day has actually been tweeted more than 1400 times today, great minds quotes write, all of us do not have equal talent but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. john f. kennedy.
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it's the first day of school, so to speak, for the freshman class of lawmakers. 80 mens are going through orientation today and msnbc's richard lui has been studying up on the class. >> as they should be too. orientation does start today but is closed to the media but if last year is any indication, one of the first orders of business for congress' freshmen he well which smartphone to use, apple iphone or r.i.m.'s blackberry both equipped with an app to remind them when to vote.
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next they line up to get their identification card and get walloped with what could be a four-inch binder, the being a member of congress 101 textbook is filled with everything to franking. they arrived yesterday checking in at a hotel close to the capitol, the faces so new an assistant had to show the cameramen who were the elected while party leaders cheered them on. there's that book. >> i assure you it's not as terrible a job as some say it is. we welcome your ideas, your energy and your enthusiasm. >> the first caucus in history when the history of civilized government to have a majority of women and minorities in the caucus. you can applaud that. [ applause ] >> after january swearing in
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they'll have the first bisexual women, the first hindu from hawaii and the first asian-american woman in the senate. that's just a fraction of the firsts. the freshman class have more democrats than republicans, are 20 fewer than the last and still have six unresolved seats. orientation is two weeks long. that's an indication of what jimmy stewart's character lorned in the 1939 classic "mr. smith goes to washington." the hours can be long and the political battles, chris, exhausting, as you know. >> any "time" you can bring in jimmy stewart. >> i had to. i'm a sucker for that. >> thanks so much, richard and that wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. good morning, thomas. >> good morning to you. good morning, everybody. agenda next hour, the president prepping for his first news conference post-election and prior to this reporters getting the news the breaking news this morning that ousted cia director david petraeus will testify before the senate intelligence committee.
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